Name: gm110360 Date: 08/18/2003


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
Java Plugin 1.4.1_03

FULL OS VERSION :
Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows 98
Windows NT

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Ours is a Internet banking site that has 2 servers and it uses load balancing to hit any of the servers on client request. We use a signed applet that is Microsoft JVM enabled i.e it gets downloaded (sticky caching) and works perfectly on applet version changes(downloads new version ). Lately we were tring to enable it for SUN JVM (1.4.1_03)and that is where our problem starts. SUN JVM downloads the applet perfectly and suffixes the name of the applet with some numbers\characters on its own. No problems with that. But if the request that downloads the applet hits the different server, it starts downloading the applet again. That means we have two applets for different servers.
The request URL is same for both of them. We go thru the same url and it is only later that the load balancing comes into picture.
Since the cache_version tag does not work properly(known bug in SUN JVM) so we depend on the content size and date stamp of the applet. Both things are same for the servers.
We tried to syncronize the server dates as well but all in vain.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.
(Incident Review ID: 193238)
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